But I am trying to find some references / videos on the best way to clear out the waist when cutting very thin dovetail tails for a half blind drawer. i find that the bottom of the tails, in the corner, is very hard to clean up without the side of my chisel banging into the side of the tail.

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Hi Jimmy,I use a left and right skew chisel.Lie Neilson makes fish tail chisels that look nice.Someday I plan on getting a set of Japaneese fishtail chisels even though I don’t need them.I admit t having a weakness to Japaneese chisels.Good luck

If you have any chisels that you would consider junkers you could grind a skew into it, re-bevel somewhere in the 25-30 degree range and it would work after sharpening. I did that and all of a sudden two chisels that I thought were garbage became prized!

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